Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little was known about the products of many of these areas , and much research still needs to be done but Collecting Lustreware goes a long way to redressing the balance . |
| 2 | Alba Adriatica has a long beach of fine , golden sand where holiday life is taken at a relaxed unhurried pace . |
| 3 | It is possibly true of ‘ Bonn ’ : Germany has a long tradition of unease about England which has been kept alive.and well in influential papers such as Die Zeit and elsewhere . |
| 4 | Established in 1912 , Olympus has a long tradition of good design , using the finest materials and quality craftsmanship . |
| 5 | Glendenning follows a long trail of Darlington players who have gone to Rovers , but he is unable to force his way into the first team . |
| 6 | Scotland has a long tradition of exporting its talents . |
| 7 | Gerard has a long dissertation on it in his Herbal of 1597 , and shows four coloured illustrations of different sorts , which do not seem to be known nowadays . |
| 8 | Peter Settelen has a long list of television credits to his name , appearing in Crown Court and Z-Cars . |
| 9 | Phil Kite is struggling against a hand injury and Mel Rees faces a long recovery from cancer surgery last summer . |
| 10 | North Shields has a long history of democratic local government and is currently under the political control of the most left-wing Labour authority in the North East . |
| 11 | Prague has a long history of defenestrations and in 1948 Jan Masaryk , the foreign minister , the founding president 's son and one of only three non-communist ministers in the government , was found dead , having apparently exited from his office window . |
| 12 | Ulster has a long tradition of rural industry and peasant agriculture . |
| 13 | Sport had always been a part of village life and Halling has a long association with all forms of sport . |
| 14 | ‘ China has a long history of cuisine , a vast territory and abundant natural resources , many nationalities and a large population that has many regions and local diets and customs , ’ he explains , adding that Chinese chefs tended to create new dishes daily , as each cooking method , each style and the range of ingredients could be used to make up different combinations — traditional menus contained a minimum of 100 dishes named after methods . |
| 15 | Guinness has a long history in the African continent and has progressively extended its distribution in the last 30 years . |
| 16 | But despite the fact that it seems inhospitable , Dartmoor has a long history of use by humans . |
| 17 | The LGC has a long tradition of providing support services and policy advice to the government . |
| 18 | Johnson devotes a long paragraph to the old woman 's but as Dr Livingstone might have described an African kraal . |
| 19 | It was pointed out that contrary to the rose-tinted spectacles view , Britain has a long history of riot and disorder . |
| 20 | Aphrodisias seems a long way from anywhere , but it is worth the trip for it is one of the most exciting archaeological sites in Turkey . |
| 21 | One brown , scratched negative reproduced by the Armenian Tashnag militia in Beirut shows a long column of men being led out of an Armenian village by Turkish troops . |
| 22 | CATH is not a Catholic organisation , but Father Tim continues a long line of involvement by the Franciscans that started with Father Crispin back in 1972 . |
| 23 | That area of Aberdeenshire has a long tradition of producing outstanding personalities . |
| 24 | It noted that ‘ Corbett McDonald has a long history as a lobbyist for the asbestos industry . |
| 25 | MITI has a long record of concern with the dangers of excess capacity for capital intensive sectors . |